Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27248965-20171007071507/@comment-27248965-20171009011432

TrinityFlare wrote: This is because first of all, it would take more time to evolve, and some evolutions require items or trade, which is just not worth the time or money just to have less PC Space.

Next, you can just release the Pokemon that are trashy and you would never use, conserving your PC Space and time. Sure, it spends Pokeballs, but it's easier to get money for Pokeballs than to level up Pokemon.

Finally, a lot of Pokemon Trainers don't really need Pokedex entries and are ignorant about that. It takes time to train Pokémon in your main party anyway, so training should not be a problem. It is a Pokémon Trainer's duty. For Pokémon requiring items or trading to evolve, their final forms are not even available in the wild......

Do we encourage releasing Pokémon here? We never did, right? As for Trainers who do not care about Pokédex entries, they probably only need to look up on where to find the Pokémon they want to use, and the information of base form's location is sufficient enough. Guard10120 wrote: I’m against the idea of removing features here, they give the wiki a sense of uniqueness of information concerning PBB. "Sense of uniqueness for information concerning PBB" is exactly what we take pride in. Ever thought of why we do not have any articles for Pokémon species? It is because they are hardly unique to PBB. Bulbapedia, Serebii.net and Pokémon Database have much better coverage on them. Do you know why we reformed 2 Appendix pages "Breeding" and "Shiny Pokémon" into main namespace articles Lagoona Day Care and Event Pokémon respectively? It is because we want to establish a PBB-unique approach.

The same should apply to Type articles. Those pages were only unique with the lists of Pokémon locations in PBB. We originally did not have Pokédex page, so we relied on Type articles to show where the Pokémon can be found, but things have changed. With the Pokédex article consolidating all Pokémon lists into one, the Type pages essentially have their only thing unique to PBB extracted. Without the Pokémon lists, Type articles only have the summary and information of attacks left. The former can be combined into Appendix:Pokémon Types, while the latter is not unique to PBB either, and thus should be removed entirely.